Coffee plant with reduced α-D-galactosidase activity
AssigneeNestec S.A.
InventorsPierre Marraccini, Alain François Paul Edmond Deshayes, William John Rogers
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Abstract
The present invention relates to the modification of galactomannans present in the green coffee bean by reducing the endogenous level of α-D-galactosidase activity. In particular, the present invention pertains to a plant cell with reduced α-D-galactosidase activity and to a plant harboring such a plant cell.
Claims7
A coffee plant cell that produces galacto-mannans and that is modified to reduce endogenous levels of alpha-D-galactosidase mRNA, wherein the coffee plant cell comprises an antisense cassette comprising a full-length alpha-D-galactosidase coding sequence from coffee operably linked to a promoter in antisense orientation.
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